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Article Nuuksio National Park

Hiking trails in the national park

Petr Klauda
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Nuuksio National Park
Inserted: 26.06.2017
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Nuuksio is the nearest Finnish national park from the capital Helsinki. One day will be enough to visit him and you can get to it comfortably by public transport.

An interesting trip from Helsinki

I spent 2 days in Finland, one of which I had for a tour of Helsinki and one I wanted to spend in nature. The nearest national park around Helsinki is Nuuksio National Park, located about 25 km northwest of the capital city center.

How to get from Helsinki to Nuuksio National Park

Mostly don't cross

  • The national park is basically very easily accessible by a kind of Prague integrated transport. You simply buy and charge the card and you can drive around as you wish. Nuuksio National Park is located a short distance from the city of Espoo (which is the second largest city in Finland) and in the second zone of Helsinki's „integrated“ transport. A ticket for two bands for 24 hours cost € 12 in 2014, which is very favorable for your wallet due to the prices in Finland. It is best to buy it in the information, you will get a paper magnetic card and you can still choose the color of the case. The ticket can also be bought at a vending machine, but beware, while the pre-sale card is valid for 24 hours from the date of marking, the ticket from the vending machine is valid 24 hours from the sale. – You can get to the national park by suburban train (similar to our Eska) from Helsinki Central Station Rautantientori by lines marked S, U, L, E, which you leave at Espoo station, from where bus number 245 goes to the park. The train intervals are 15 minutes, the bus has an interval of 60 minutes. There are readers in all means of transport, which will show you how valid the ticket is when it is attached. Don't try to drive in black, the fine is € 80, the inspectors will run into the car with, for example, 6 people and they will look a bit like an intervention unit. – The bus stop at the turnoff to the center of the national park is called (remember this well) Haukkalamentie. In this area, the stops are only columns with the indication that something is stopping here and often without timetables. The journey through the forest landscape around numerous lakes and red wooden houses is interrupted only by the driver's reverse gear … we finally crossed the right stop to the final stop. So I went back on my own, but after about 10 minutes the bus returns, stops and honks at me and the driver takes me to the right „exit“ point. – The turn to the park can be really easily overlooked, because it consists of only a small indicator with mileage. The central car park and actually the official entrance to the park are 1.9 km away. It's a beautiful September morning, half past eight, and a haze still emerges from the surrounding lakes, and I can enjoy this atmosphere all by myself, because far and wide there is no animal. – When I wrote about the „central entrance“, take this expression with a lot of exaggeration, in fact it is a parking lot with a map of the park and there is also a house where you can sleep in an emergency and a cottage for park rangers. Apart from me, they are also the only ones who move around the park, which was founded in 1994 and spread over 23 square kilometers, this morning and are preparing the park for the first adventurous tourists. It's a bit of a problem with that size, different language mutations of wikipedia state a different size, so I stick to the Finnish mutation.

Road to Kattil

The central parking lot is in a place called Haukkalampi and there are four marked circuits from 2 to about 8 kilometers. I have time all day, so I can choose more circuits, the first one I go on a yellow eight-kilometer called Korpinkierros. The route takes me first to Lake Mustalampi with floating peat and then slowly climbs the rocky terrain over Rakallio Rock. On the way I pass several log cabins designed for the preparation of picnics, ie with a fireplace, kettle, wood, there is also a saw and an ax for the preparation of heating and a bucket of water to put out the fire. At the next lake with an island I meet the first tourists. The circuit then turns back to the central car park, but I continue on the carriage road to Kattil, where there is another infrastructure of the national park. Again a fireplace, a place for emergency sleeping, but also a bus stop, selected connections of line no. 245 go all the way here. South Finnish forests alternate with rock gardens and numerous heaths.

Road to Kattil
Author: Petr Liška © gigaplaces.com

On the way to Solvalle

Since my idea was naive that I would find at least a postcard stand here, for example, I go back, this time along the carriage way to Haukkalampi and choose the blue circuit. It rises to the views of the Haukkalampi Valley and Myllypuro Stream. But honestly, you have to find the prospects yourself, there is no special signage for them. And mature trees also prevent better views. I return again by stairs back to the central parking lot and decide to travel to Solvalla, which is actually the official gateway to the national park with an information center and also with a bus connection to civilization. So I go to the red circuit, which leads along the sidewalks of planks through birch forests and heaths. His name is Punnarinankierros. At the farthest point of the 3-kilometer circuit, however, I turn onto a path marked only by signs in the direction of Solvalla. Along the way, I also meet mushroom pickers, which is often a rarity in the Nordic countries, but by opening the borders, this activity is carried out mainly by citizens from Russian-speaking areas. Also in Helsinki on the market I saw a marketer with baskets full of foxes and a little further south in Latvia and Estonia there was a marketer selling many species of forest mushrooms (mushrooms, quartzites, etc.)

On the way to Solvalle
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On the way to the lookout
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On the way to the lookout

not a few steps will surprise you

There are plenty of lakes in Finland
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There are plenty of lakes in Finland

The morning rays try to penetrate at least a little to the water surface.

Lake Haukkalampi

From the picture you can still smell the cold of the early September morning at Lake Haukkalampi

Lake Haukkalampi
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One of the picnic pavilions in the national park

And if you get hungry you can use wooden gazebos with a fireplace to prepare hot meals. There is also wood, an ax, a saw, and a water bucket to extinguish the fireplace

One of the picnic pavilions in the national park
Author: Petr Klauda © gigaplaces.com

Solvalla

I come to Solvalla, there is a sports center and also an open information center, where I can finally buy a view, at the same time they have leaflets from almost all national parks in Finland and also typical Finnish knives (in the price of about 60 € per piece). The information center is located in a complex above Lake Nuuksio, where there is also a restaurant and a hotel. I still descend to the lake, even though I ignore the sign indicating the private space to create probably the most beautiful photo from the whole trip. The complex has a fairly civilized bus stop, including a shelter and timetable, and soon the bus will take me back to the city. For info I will add a link to public transport in Helsinki and the surrounding area: https://www.hsl.fi/en.

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